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Experts Agree: Death Penalty Not A Deterrent To Violent Crime

GAINESVILLE — Friday is the 20th anniversary of the first execution in the United States since the death penalty’s reinstatement, and a University of Florida researcher’s new study shows 90 percent of the nation’s top criminologists say killing people to deter violent crime is an immense waste of time and money.

Filed under Law, Politics, Religion, Research on Wednesday, January 15, 1997.